Key-holder



R. J. ECKSTEl-N.

KEY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.31, 1920. RENEWED AUG. 1,1921.

1,391,533 Patented Sept. 20, 1921.

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{NI/[W708 Zwm Jarm/ [mm/2% ATTORNEY R. 1.. ECKSTEIN.

KEY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. 1920. RENEWED AUG. l. 1921.

. Patented Sept. 20, 1921.

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sexism JOSEPH "ECKSTEIN, or r'monnivnn, ailman-m.

' KEY-Herbert.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known-that I, REUBEN'JOSEPH Eon STEIN, acitizen of the Dominion of Canada,

residing at Kitchener, in the county of Waterloo and province of Ontario, Canada,

have invented certain new andv useful Improvements in Key-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

- This invention relates to improvements in key holders for doors and the object is to provide a novel means whereby the key when placed in the. door will be held against dropping out or being. pushed out from the opposite side of the door.

A further object Is to provide aninexpensive construction of this nature which can be put on door plates already in use.

With these and other objects in View, the

invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated V in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.-

Figure 1 is a front plan view ofa door plate with my invention shown'thereon in normal position,

Fig. 2 is asimilar view showing my inven-. tion in open position,

Fig. 3 is a detail view of a set of door plates showing the relative position of my invention thereto, the key being shown in dotted position, and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings like numerals designate like parts in the various drawings.

5 indicates. a door of any suitable nature on which 6 is a door plate commonlyused in connection with the usual locking means. 7 is a key hole of any suitab'le design formed through the plate 6. 8 is a groove formed at one side ofthe key hole 7 having a deeper depression at its lower endas at 9.

I wish it understood that the hereinbefore mentioned drawings are for illustration purposes only and I have shown my key holder in its simplest form as constructed on the outside of the, plate 6 which will be hereinafter described, but I do not wish. to limit myself to having my improved key holder constructed on the outside of the plate as it can be operated inside a hollow plate or on a depression formed in the plate 6 which depression wouldhave a covering over the same. .11; this way it m g t be beneed as at 11 to theplate 6. Its opposite end' is bent inwardly toward the plate 6 as at 12 Patented Sept. 20,1921. 1

Application filedlarch 31, 1920, Serial No. 370,151. Renewed August 1, 1921. SerialNo. 489,356. a

ficial as it would relieve the operating parts i from view and from the temptation of tamwhich end is adapted to reciprocate in the groove 8. This latch when in normal position isas shown in Fig.1. A suitable spring 14 is used for tensionin'g the latch to always return to this position when free to do so. I have shown a coil spring 14 but I do not wish to limit myself to the particular design of'a coil spring in this particular position as a coil spring might be used in connection with the pivotal connection 11' for tensioning the latch in the same desiredmanner or a fiatspring maybe used for the same purpose; 15 is a keeper for holding the reciprocal latch 10 in proper position to the plate 6.

The end 12 ofthe latch 10 is adapted to fit into the depression 9 at the lower end of the groove 8"as shown in Figsl2 and 4' when it'is desirous of leaving the latch in inoperative position.

It will be seen that when the key 20 is put through the key hole 7 the operating end 21 cannot be withdrawn when the latchlO is in the position as shown in Fig. 1 nor can the key be pushed out from the opposite side of'the door.

Although I haveshown the latch 10 on the outside of the plate 6 in the illustrations,

this latch could be as readily attached on the inside of the plateif desired, illustration of which I have omitted as it would be attached in asimilar manner as if on the'outside as illustrated.

From theforegoing it is thought that the construction of my invention will be clearly being, taken out of a key opening in said inoperative position.

2. A pivoted latch member having an anular termina plate and a means for holding said latch in a keeper therefor within.

which it mey ineire, aispring acting to keep v. In testimony whereof I aiflii: mysignhture the latch. in its operative p0siti0n,- and in the presence of two witnesses.

means coiiperating with the angular termif I nal, of the latch, said means co'mpnsing a REUBEN HE NT 5 filate with a. substantially ertical roove W'itnesses:

aving-its lower endformed with a ee e A. Bonntm, depression. I r v VI'ELVAQHERBST'. 

